Word: minting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Store 24: Undoubtedly summer students will spend a mint in this joint as students do during the winter. When you got to have Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies, you got to have them and Store 24 can satiate basic "munchies" with a decent selection of packaged junk food. The 24 does the trick but only barely. A tip: don't eat the meatless meat sandwiches in the window...
...despite these drawbacks, the scam succeeded. Wilson and Ferguson could not resist the urge familiar to every late-night paper writer. They decimated the package of KitKats as well. (To their credit, the two scoundrels knew their limit; when the inspectors sent down a second decoy package, containing a mint set of U.S. Bicentennial coins and silver dollars, the workers examined it but re-wrapped and sent it on its way intact...
...initial test marketing, the company sent salesmen to supermarkets in Kansas City with sample bags of cookies bearing P & G's Duncan Hines label. The inaugural flavors are five varieties of chocolate chip-either plain or combined with butterscotch, almonds, mint or peanut butter-fudge. P & G has previously sold Duncan Hines cookie mix, but this is the company's first challenge to Nabisco and Keebler, the leaders in the $2.5 billion-per-year ready-to-munch-cookie industry. In its sales pitches, P & G asserts that it has developed technology to mass produce a cookie that...
Jobs (rhymes with lobs) did not make the revolution alone. He did not even make the machine that made the revolution, the Apple II, the personal computer that along with its other skills seemed to mint money. Stephen Wozniak, 32, Jobs' friend and former colleague who looks like a Steiff Teddy bear on a maintenance dose of marshmallows, created the Apple II. He worked from some pre-existing technology, scaling it down radically and making it affordable to consumers as well as corporations. "Steve didn't do one circuit, design or piece of code," says Wozniak, who was widely regarded...
...season to mint money. Hollywood traditionally saves its big comedies for Christmas and, almost invariably, fills its stockings with hits. In 1980, for example, a trio of holiday comediesying home with their new video games. This season moviemakers are playing by the old rules, with bantamweight farces and mellow romantic comedies that are luring sizable audiences to the local Cineplex. The class comedy act is Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman winningly proves that an actor's life is a drag. But there are other new comedies aiming to answer the moguls' prayer: that this Christmas will be business as usual...